NOV 15 {993
NOV 2 2 1993

A bylaw to preserve, regulate the removal of and provide
for the replacement of trees throughout the City.

Whereas the Municipal Act authorizes Conncil by Bylaw to preserve trees, regulate the cutting
and removal of trees, charge a fee for a permit to allow the cutting and removal of trees and
require the replacement of trees cut down,

Now therefore, the Council of the Corporation of the City of Port Coquitlam, in open meeting
assembied, enacts as follows:

CITATION

1. This Bylaw may be cited as the “Tree Preservation, Removal and Replacement Bylaw,
1993, No. 2836".

DEFINITIONS
2. Inthis Bylaw:

"Cutting" shall mean the removal of the whole or selective parts of any tree by any
means and shall include topping or selective pruning or any other activity
that damages trees.

“Development shall mean an area so described within the Port Coquitlam Official
Community Plan.

shall mean any physical barrier including a fence, box, frame, guard,
tape or line placed around a tree or cluster of trees to indicate retenticn.

shall mean an Arborist, certified by the International Society of
Ayboriculture, or a Landscape Architect, registered with the Canadian
Society of Landscape Architects.

shall mean a tree planted on a property to replace a tree which has been
cut down on the sare property.

shall mean a permit issued by the Director of Parks and Recreation in
accordance with this Bylaw which will allow cutting and replacement of
trees under conditions stipulated in the permit.

shall mean a plan based on the tree survey which shows the trees
proposed to be cut and the location, size (height and caliper) and species
of replacement trees to be planted upon a subject site.

shall mean a plan showing the location, species and trunk diameter of all
existing trees on a subject site having a diameter greater than 20
centimeters (8 inches) at a point 1.2 meters (4 feet) above the ground. In
the case of multi-stemmed trees, the diameter shall be measured around
all the stems together.

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